Featured Guests

From time to time you’ll see guest posts or interviews on Mondays. Here are the interesting people so far that have offered to share their lessons …

Best-Selling Authors

I like to draw insight from book authors. I find that somebody who spends the time to put together a book on a topic, they tend to have something to share. One of my favorite things to ask authors is to share either their top 10 lessons in life, or their top 10 lessons in their area of expertise.

Al ReisAuthor of The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding
Al is a legendary marketing strategist and the best-selling author of 11 books on marketing including Positioning, Focus, The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding, The Fall of Advertising & the Rise of PR and War in the Boardroom (2009).Left Brainers and Right Brainers | How To Rebrand a Brand

Dan SchawbelAuthor of Me 2.0 a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success
Dan is the bestselling author of Me 2.0, an award winning blogger at Personal Branding Blog, the publisher of Personal Branding Magazine, a national speaker and consultant on branding, and a BusinessWeek columnist.Top 5 Lessons Learned in Personal Branding

Guy KawasakiAuthor of The Art of the StartGuy is a a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, bestselling author, and Apple Fellow. Above all, Guy is a down to Earth unleasher of goodness, and he drives with a simple mission to “empower people.”Top 10 Reasons to Self-Publish

Gretchen RubinAuthor of The Happiness Project
Gretchen is a best selling author and former lawyer. Gretchen studied happiness by making it a project. During The Happiness Project, she spent a year test-driving every principle, tip, theory, and scientific study she could find.Top 10 Lessons Learned in Happiness.

Jay HeinrichsAuthor of Thank You for Arguing
Jay is the author of the bestseller, Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion.The 10 Best Ways to Persuade

Marie ForleoAuthor of Make Every Man Want YouMarie is a best-selling author, speaker, online-entrepreneur, Nike Athlete and Master Trainer, fitness personality, dancer, and choreographer.Lessons in Life by Marie Forleo

Michael MichalkoAuthor of THINKERTOYS
Michael is one of the most highly acclaimed creativity experts in the world and author of the best sellers Thinkertoys and Thinkpak..Choice | Dancing in the Rain

Noah BlumenthalAuthor of Be the Hero
Noah is the author of the nationally bestselling book, Be the Hero: Three Powerful Ways to Overcome Challenges in Work and Life and was named by Leadership Excellence Magazine as one of the world’s “Top 100 Minds in Personal Development.”8 Ways to Be Heroic

Stephen L. NelsonStephen is the best-selling author of QuickBooks for Dummies and Quicken for Dummies. He was once called the Louis L’Amour of computer books by the Wall Street Journal because he’s written more computer books (roughly 160 at last count) than any other author.The Five Small Business Formulas

Tim FerrisAuthor of The 4-Hour Work Week, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef
Tim is an author, entrepreneur, angel investor, and public speaker. He experiments in life-style design. Tim is the 7th “most powerful” personality on Newsweek’s Digital 100 Power Index for 2012.Interview on the 4-Hour Chef

Insightful People

I come across insightful people all the time. I like to have them share what they know with readers of Sources of Insight. Some are unsung heroes. Some are experts in their field. Others are people who have learned from the school of hard knocks. What they all have in common is insight that’s worth spreading.

Gino Wickman

Ali Hale
Ali is a freelance writer and a regular blogger for Dumb Little Man, Pick the Brain, and The Change Blog. Ali’s super skill is wrestling with and digging deep into life’s really big questions.My Top 10 Lessons in Life

Alissa FinermanAlissa is the author of Living in Your Top 1%: Nine Essential Rituals to Achieve Your Ultimate Life Goals, which is essentially about helping people find their inner drive, get clarity on what they want, and make their dreams happen through compelling goals, and inspired action.Seven Principles for a Better Life by Alissa Finerman

Janine de NysschenChangemaker and Purpose Strategist, Whytelligence
Janine believes there’s a sense of purpose instilled in everyone and it defines the difference you want to make in this world, and it inspires everything you do.Discover Your Why | Discover the How to Your Why

Ken SylvesterPresident of Organization Strategy Institute, Inc.
Dr. Ken Sylvester is a skilled negotiator. He has mediated and negotiated for organizations such as Microsoft, the U.S. Olympic Committee, Google, the NBA, the NFL, Nike, Coca-Cola, and many others.Top 5 Characteristics of Leaders

Melody FletcherMelody has a wealth of experience from managing multi-million dollar restaurants in San Francisco, to working as a dealer in several Las Vegas casinos, to selling fiber optic network components in Germany, to running a Global IT service center for a large multi-national corporation in Spain.Cracking the Code: How to Attract Everything You’ve Ever Wanted

Nadia Ballas-Ruta
Nadia is the author of the Happy Lotus blog, and her super skill is spirituality. She was trained by a Buddhist master and this turned out to be one of her most powerful, life changing events.Top 10 Lessons Learned in Spirituality | Passion 101

Rob WhiteAuthor of 80: Climbing the Two Ladders to Inner Strength and Outer FreedomRob is an author and explorer of the mind. He inspires minds at MindAdventure.com.Make Plenty of Miss-Takes

Weldon “Wally” LongWeldon is the author of the book, The Upside of Fear, which is Winner of the 2009 New York Book Festival’s award in the Biography/Autobiography category, and is endorsed by Stephen Covey and Tony Robbins.Emerson was Right … If You THINK He Was